At the tables of other gentlemen I observed the same thing constantly occurring.

At this meeting Mr.
Canto communicated some ideas which I had written out on the dignity of labor, and the superiority of free over slave labor.

The Portuguese gentlemen present were anxiously expecting an arrival of American cotton-seed from Mr.Gabriel.They are now in the transition state from unlawful to lawful trade, and turn eagerly to cotton, coffee, and sugar as new sources of wealth.

Mr.Canto had been commissioned by them to purchase three sugar-mills.

Our cruisers have been the principal agents in compelling them to abandon the slave-trade; and our government, in furnishing them with a supply of cotton-seed, showed a generous intention to aid them in commencing a more honorable course.